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Multiple Choice
1. The eclectic design elements that characterize the Piazza d’Italia are characteristic of ______.
a. postmodern architecture
b. Bauhaus
c. Environmental Art
d. Pop Art
2. Francis Bacon’s central figure in Painting may have been based on _____.
a. Roman portraits
b. images of American and British officials
c. Futurist sculptures
d. Pop Art
3. In the 1950s the center of the Western art world shifted from Paris to _____.
a. Rome
b. Madrid
c. New York
d. London
4. The first American avant-garde movement was _____.
a. Minimalism
b. Pop Art
c. Superrealism
d. Abstract Expressionism
5. The art critic _____ advocated for the rejection of illusionism in art.
a. Clement Greenberg
b. Claes Oldenburg
c. Neville Chamberlain
d. Chuck Close
6. Jackson Pollock’s art best exemplifies _____ of Abstract Expressionism.
a. hard-edged painting
b. gestural abstraction
c. color field painting
d. minimalism
7. _____ was a form of abstraction that emphasized tighter pictorial control than Abstract Expressionism.
a. Pop Art
b. Minimalism
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c. Post-Painterly Abstraction
d. Gestural abstraction
8. Frank Stella was a leading artist in the branch of Post-Painterly Abstraction called _____.
a. gestural abstraction
b. conceptualism
c. process abstraction
d. hard-edge painting
9. ______ artists poured diluted paint onto a canvas and allowed it to soak in.
a. Color-field
b. Pop
c. Hard-edge
d. Superrealist
10. Minimalist artist Donald Judd created many of his artworks using _____.
a. organic shapes
b. stacked geometric boxes
c. interlocking spirals
d. cloak-like shapes
11. Louise Nevelson unified the diverse pieces of her sculptured walls by _____.
a. making each motif the same
b. standardizing the height of each form
c. painting them in a monochromatic color
d. creating a larger border around them
12. The organic quality of Louise Bourgeois’s art recalls _____.
a. gestural abstraction
b. process art
c. metaphysical painting
d. biomorphic Surrealism
13. Jasper Johns’s artworks commonly featured ordinary objects, including _____.
a. flags
b. nude women
c. lipstick containers
d. portraits of famous people
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14. Robert Rauschenberg’s hybrid works of painting and sculpture are called _____.
a. readymades
b. combines
c. towers
d. ben-day shapes
15. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein magnified images from _____ on large canvases.
a. cameos
b. medieval manuscripts
c. comics
d. scrolls
16. Striving for optical accuracy, ____ artists often used photographs as sources.
a. color-field
b. combine
c. Minimalist
d. Superrealist
17. Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party takes the form of a _____ because of its ancient association with women and the
goddess.
a. triangle
b. star
c. diamond
d. oval
18. To celebrate the achievements of women, Judy Chicago used _____ to create The Dinner Party.
a. gold leaf
b. craft techniques
c. religious mosaics
d. precious gems
19. _____ is famous for her use of fiber materials.
a. Audrey Flack
b. Cindy Sherman
c. Magdalena Abakanowicz
d. Carolee Schneemann
20. Taking influence from natural forms, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum was based on the _____.
a. shape of the universe
b. arms of a starfish
c. flight of a bird
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d. spiral of a snail’s shell
21. Postmodern architects criticized the _____ of the buildings of their predecessors, especially skyscrapers.
a. uniformity
b. overuse of Art Nouveau details
c. elaborate nature
d. historical references
22. Which building is considered to be an updated version of Paxton’s Crystal Palace?
a. Portland Building
b. Centre Georges Pompidou
c. Guggenheim Museum
d. Seagram Building
23. Which art form stands at the intersection of architecture and sculpture?
a. Conceptual Art
b. Process Art
c. Environmental Art
d. Performance Art
24. Conceptual artists deemed the _____ to be more important than their final product.
a. preciousness of the materials
b. influence of other artists
c. space or location
d. artist’s ideas
25. British art critic Lawrence Alloway coined the term _____ to refer to artists who combined mass consumer culture
with familiar imagery from everyday life.
a. Pop Art
b. Minimalist Art
c. Abstract Expressionism
d. Performance Art
26. Performance Art challenged art’s function as _____.
a. a commodity
b. art
c. a creative effort
d. a visual experience
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SLIDE IDENTIFICATION
27. (Figure 15-26)
a. Barbara Kruger
b. Cindy Sherman
c. Louise Bourgeois
d. Magdalena Abakanowicz
28. (Figure 15-5)
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Willem de Kooning
c. Mark Rothko
d. Helen Frankenthaler
29. (Figure 15-9)
a. Mark Rothko
b. Jeff Koons
c. Helen Frankenthaler
d. Willem de Kooning
30. (Figure 15-4)
a. Arshile Gorky
b. Willem de Kooning
c. Mark Rothko
d. Jackson Pollock
31. (Figure 15-16)
a. Joseph Beuys
b. Jasper Johns
c. Roy Lichtenstein
d. Joseph Kosuth
32. (Figure 15-20)
a. Andy Warhol
b. Claes Oldenburg
c. Judy Chicago
d. Nam June Paik
33. (Figure 15-34)
a. Joseph Beuys
b. Robert Smithson
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c. Donald Judd
d. Christo
34. (Figure 15-11)
a. Audrey Flack
b. Donald Judd
c. David Smith
d. Louise Nevelson
35. (Figure 15-6)
a. Minimalism
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Post-Painterly Abstraction
d. Pop Art
36. (Figure 15-12)
a. Minimalism
b. Abstract Expressionism
c. Post-Painterly Abstraction
d. Pop Art
37. (Figure 15-8)
a. Color field
b. Gestural abstraction
c. Optical art
d. Hard-edge painting
38. (Figure 15-35)
a. Deconstructivism
b. Conceptual Art
c. Performance Art
d. New Media
39. (Figure 15-36)
a. Deconstructivism
b. Conceptual Art
c. Performance Art
d. New Media
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40. (Figure 15-37)
a. Matthew Barney
b. Nam June Paik
c. Cindy Sherman
d. Bill Viola
Subjective Short Answer
41. How does postmodernist architecture differ from earlier architectural styles?
42. How do Giacometti’s sculptures reflect existential thought?
43. What was Arshile Gorky’s role in the artistic revolution that took place in New York?
44. Who was Clement Greenberg, and how did his ideas influence the development of modern art?
45. Describe the two stylistic camps in Abstract Expressionism.
46. How does Jackson Pollock’s art highlight the importance of the artist’s creative process?
47. Describe the importance of process in the work of Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
48. What significance did color have for Mark Rothko?
49. What similarities exist between Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp?
50. What relieves the industrial qualities of the Centre Georges Pompidou?
51. How does Performance Art differ from traditional art?
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52. What did Nam June Paik accomplish through his collaboration with Shuya Abe?
53. Describe the different approaches to sculpture. Please provide examples.
54. What were the aims of Pop Art? How did it defy the art movements that preceded it?
SLIDE QUESTIONS
55. What is the function of this monument, and how do the design elements support that function?
56. Although seemingly abstract, which representational elements are present?
57. Who made this work, and how does it illustrate Greenberg’s ideas of pure painting?
58. How does this reflect the values of consumer culture?
59. To what extent is this work dependent on or different than Dada?
60. How is the technique appropriate for the subject?
61. How did the artist construct her own identity?
62. How does this contrast with Modernism?
Essay
64. Providing examples, describe the artistic aims and styles of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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65. Describe Clement Greenberg’s ideas on purity of form. Which artists’ artworks exemplified his principles?
66. Compare and contrast Pop Art and Superrealism. How were their artistic aims similar or different? How did they bring
meaning to their work through their technique?
67. Describe how artists used their work to address gender or racial inequality. Use specific examples.
68. Describe how various postmodern architects created a dialogue between the past and the present.
69. Identify the examples of art that expanded the range of works considered to be art.
70. Contrast the style of Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame-du-Haut to Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson’s Seagram
Building.
71. Identify the works of art that address feminist concerns. Provide examples.
UNKNOWN IMAGES
72. Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date. Give the reasons for your attributions,
using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.